harvest supper
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The third group of instances consists of the harvest customs of northern Europe—the harvest supper and the rites of the Corn-mother or the Corn-maiden or the Kern Baby.
From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
No small share of work fell to Margaret’s hands, who had to prepare the harvest supper for fourteen men, besides women and children.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold
I ne'er sot up so i' MY life, not to say as it warna a marr'in', or a christenin', or a wake, or th' harvest supper.
From Adam Bede by George Eliot
This was the night which had been selected by Sergeant Troy — ruling now in the room of his wife — for giving the harvest supper and dance.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Alas, the glad and sad times alike must die, and the dull prose of October follows hard on the wild jollity of the harvest supper, while Winter peers with haggard gaze over Autumn's shoulder!
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by James Runciman
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